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  • Declaration of the Party of Labour

    Declaration of the Party of Labour The brutal assault on the May Day demonstration showed that the Yeltsin regime is interpreting the results of the referendum in its own distinctive fashion: as a mandate to use clubs and water-cannons

  • Boris Yeltsin's media steamroller

    MOSCOW — In Russian warships based in the port of Kaliningrad, the English-language Moscow Tribune reported on April 26, the vote in the April 25 referendum went heavily against President Boris Yeltsin. This was not just a

  • No progress in talks on Timor

    No progress in talks on TimorThe Indonesian and Portuguese foreign ministers and the UN secretary-general met in Rome on April 27 to discuss East Timor. The first round of these talks, held in New York in December,

  • A bloody May Day in Moscow

    MOSCOW — When participants in the communist May Day demonstration here — including this correspondent — neared Gagarin Square on Lenin Prospect south of the city centre, they found the entrance to the square

  • The Russian left and the referendum

    MOSCOW — A rather uneventful campaign, dominated by heavy pro-Yeltsin propaganda in the electronic media but virtually no popular manifestations in his support, preceded the referendum on April 25. In spite of a

  • Illegal British trade in endangered rainforest species

    Illegal British trade in endangered rainforest species Investigations by Friends of the Earth have revealed that, despite international obligations for the British government to control imports of endangered species, wood from one of the

  • A heavy welcome for Metallica

    Thousands of Indonesian young people rioted in Jakarta last month after they were excluded from a major stadium where the heavy metal band, Metallica, was playing. Metallica and heavy metal have developed a strong following

  • Trade unionists against US blockade

    Trade unionists against US blockade HAVANA — Trade unionists from 40 countries have agreed to spearhead a worldwide drive against the 30-year US blockade of Cuba. The resolution, adopted at a meeting of visiting trade unionists who attended

  • South Korea celebrates May Day

    South Korea celebrates May DaySouth Korean workers and students celebrated May Day this year for the first time in 35 years. Until now, any ceremonies relating to May Day were legally banned. In the Seoul region, a

  • Government suspected in Sri Lanka assassination

    By S. Piyasena "We left the government when murder became a part of politics." That was the way Lalith Arthulathmudali, a former senior minister in the Sri Lankan government, explained his break with President Premadasa and the latter's

  • MP's death confirmed

    MP's death confirmedThe death of Ken Savia, the minister of health in the Bougainville Interim Government and former minister for health in the North Solomons Provincial Government, has been confirmed by the Papua New

  • Refugee family denied asylum

    Refugee family denied asylumA Romany refugee family, denied asylum by the Cologne city council (led by the Social Democrats), is now in hiding to avoid forced deportation to Macedonia. Asylum was denied on the basis